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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., McDowell's advance to Bull Run. (search)
of armed neutrality. That made Kentucky a field of early hostilities and helped to anchor her to the Union. Missouri was rescued from secession through the energy of General F. P. Blair and her other Union men, and by the indomitable will of Captain Lyon of the regular army, whose great work was accomplished under many disadvantages. In illustration of the difficulty with which the new condition of affairs penetrated the case-hardened bureauism of long peace, it may be mentioned that the vene army, when a crisis was at hand in Missouri, came from a consultation with the President and Secretary Cameron, and with a sorry expression of countenance and an ominous shake of the head exclaimed, It's bad, very bad; we're giving that young man Lyon a great deal too much power in Missouri. Early in the contest another young Union officer came to the front. Major Irvin McDowell was appointed brigadier-general May 14th. He was forty-three years of age, of unexceptionable habits and great p
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., The first year of the War in Missouri. (search)
Missouri was taken into the camp. Blair and Lyon, to whom every detail of the Governor's scheme n Saturday, the 11th, the camp was to break up. Lyon had no time to lose. On Thursday he attired hie about to march, Colonel John S. Bowen came to Lyon with a protest from Frost. Lyon refused to recri, and on the 31st of May he was superseded by Lyon. As soon as this was made known to the Governo Confederate Legislature of Missouri. Blair and Lyon would quickly attack them. Some well-meaning gther to defeat him or to hold him in check till Lyon could arrive and destroy him. Halting his columarmies in readiness for active operations. For Lyon this was a simple undertaking; for Price it wasd then we would have gone into winter quarters; Lyon would have had his own way in Missouri, and the but he consented to go with Price in search of Lyon, who was at Springfield and not hard to find. d bloodiest battles of the war now took place. Lyon's main attack was met by Price with about 3200 [26 more...]
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., In command in Missouri. (search)
Price, with an estimated force of 25,000, upon Lyon, at Springfield. Their movement was intended t and unwilling to reenlist. At Springfield General Lyon had about 6000 men, unpaid and badly fed, at. I had no time to lose. The situation of Lyon at Springfield was critical, and the small disias regiment near Leavenworth, to the support of Lyon at Springfield. Amidst incessant and conflictin affairs from that which was existing when General Lyon left Boonville for Springfield on the 5th oby special engine to Rolla, with dispatches for Lyon, and for news of him. In his letter of August 9th, the day before the battle, Lyon states, in answer to mine of the 6th, that he was unable to detethe 10th between about 6000 Union troops, under Lyon, and a greatly superior force under Price and McCulloch. I was informed that General Lyon had been killed, and that the Union troops under Sigel w by Commander John Rodgers with Brigadier-General Nathaniel Lyon. From a photograph. two gun-boat
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., Wilson's Creek, and the death of Lyon. (search)
rder. During the morning Colonel Sigel visited Lyon's headquarters, and had a prolonged conference,; those about Springfield immediately under General Lyon moving out to the west on the Little York r by Totten.-editors. Every available man of Lyon's was now brought into action and the battle rand a suspension of the fury took place. General Lyon had bivouacked near the head of his column tack by the Confederates, from the direction of Lyon's front, was made, the confusion of Sigel's men hill on the east bank of Wilson's Creek toward Lyon's left, and an attack by other troops from thatshould not bring up some other troops. To this Lyon assented, and directed the aide to order up the messengers passed each other without meeting. Lyon repeated his order for the regiment to come forwo of his men of the 2d Kansas bore the body of Lyon through the ranks, Lehmann bearing the hat and ould assume command, but visited the remains of Lyon on his way to find Sturgis. These were taken c[39 more...]
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., Arkansas troops in the battle of Wilson's Creek. (search)
led reports as to the strength and movements of Lyon's command were momentarily expected, through sp out of the Federal lines, by permission of General Lyon, and, coming in a circuitous route by Pond ed to the first advance of the enemy, under General Lyon. He had posted the 3d Louisiana Infantry (he first reception to the main column under General Lyon. He was ably supported by the gallant Missing, perhaps simultaneously with the advance of Lyon, General Sigel, commanding the left column of t but the troops more immediately opposed to General Lyon had not done so well. General Price and hito know the outcome. Just at this time, General Lyon appeared to be massing his men for a final ng me to move at once to their assistance. General Lyon was in possession of Oak Hill; his lines we the brave commander of the Federal forces, General Lyon, was killed, gallantly leading his men to wit is difficult to measure the vast results had Lyon lived and the battle gone against us. Gener[4 more...]
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., The flanking column at Wilson's Creek. (search)
regiment clad in militia gray. The bulk of General Lyon's forces were on the west side of the city.uring the morning I sent a staff-officer to General Lyon's headquarters for orders, and on his returenemy from the rear. I immediately went to General Lyon, who said that we would move in the evening the north-west, announcing the approach of General Lyon's troops; I therefore ordered the four piecth to that part of the battlefield on which General Lyon's troops were engaged. We were now on the tly forming the left of their line, confronting Lyon, as we could observe from the struggle going onemed as if we had directed our own fire against Lyon's forces. I therefore ordered the pieces to ce circumstances — the cessation of the firing in Lyon's front, the appearance of the enemy's deserter in advance on the road to Skegg's Branch, that Lyon's troops were coming up the road and that we muff from Springfield and not be able to join General Lyon's forces, we followed the Fayetteville road[1 more...]
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., The Pea Ridge campaign. (search)
n, the minor . engagements at Boonville and Carthage, the sanguinary struggle at Wilson's Creek on the 10th of August, forever memorable by the heroic death of General Lyon. The retreat of our little army of about 4500 men to Rolla, after that battle, ended the first campaign and gave General Sterling Price, the military leader ohe 13th of June, 1861, when the first expeditions started from St. Louis to the north-west and south-west of Missouri, and comprising the three campaigns under Generals Lyon, Fremont, and Curtis, we must acknowledge the extraordinary activity represented in these movements. As war in its ideal form is nothing else than a continuou being able to communicate with and assist each other. My own brigade of 1118 men, which had gained the enemy's rear, was beaten first, and then the forces of General Lyon, 4282 men, after a heroic resistance were compelled to leave the field. The enemy held the interior lines, and could throw readily his forces from one point t
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., Union and Confederate Indians in the civil War. (search)
h the view of having him make a treaty with the Confederacy. But he declined to make a treaty, and in the conference expressed himself as wishing to occupy, if possible, a neutral position during the war. A majority of the Cherokees, nearly all of whom were full-bloods, were known as Pin Indians, and were opposed to the South. Commissioner Pike went away to make treaties with the less civilized Indian tribes of the plains, and in the mean time the battle of Wilson's Creek was fought, General Lyon killed, and the Union army defeated and forced to fall back from Springfield to Rolla. Chief Ross now thought that the South would probably succeed in establishing her independence, and expressed a willingness to enter into a treaty with the Confederate authorities. On his return from the West in September, 1861, Commissioner Pike, at the request of Mr. Ross, went to Park Hill and made a treaty with the Cherokees. The treaties made with each tribe provided that the troops it raised